<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the Most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clarity, clarity, surely clarity is the Most beautiful thing in the world, A limited, limiting clarity I have not and never did have any Motive of poetry But to achieve clarity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spritual writer, 1893   We feel that other churches must accept, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7375]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spritual writer, 1893   We feel that other churches must accept, as the pre-conditions of fellowship, such changes as will bring them into conformity with ourselves in matters which we regard as essential, and that a failure to insist on this will involve compromise in regard to what is essential to the Church's being. But for precisely the same reason, we cannot admit a demand from others for any changes in ourselves which would seem to imply a denial that we already possess the esse of the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44288]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is the thirst of youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is the thirst of youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47155]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person's a person, no matter how small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65971]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person's a person, no matter how small.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that happiness is as contagious as gloom. It should be the first duty of those who are happy to let others know of their gladness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30855]]></link><description><![CDATA[They liked me so long as the liquor flowed at my house, but I haven't seen any of them around lately.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has no enemy, you say; My friend your boast is poor,  He who hath mingled in the fray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13838]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has no enemy, you say; My friend your boast is poor,  He who hath mingled in the fray   Of duty that the brave endure    Must have made foes. If he has none     Small is the work that he has done.      He has hit no traitor on the hip;       Has cast no cup from perjured lip;        Has never turned the wrong to right;         Has been a coward in the fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18229]]></link><description><![CDATA[A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we once accept the doctrine of the Incarnation, we must surely be very cautious in suggesting that any circumstance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8531]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we once accept the doctrine of the Incarnation, we must surely be very cautious in suggesting that any circumstance in the culture of first-century Palestine was a hampering or distorting influence upon His teaching. Do we suppose that the scene of God's earthly life was selected at random? -- that some other scene would have served better?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find his right road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64176]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may miss the mark by aiming too high as too low.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9848]]></link><description><![CDATA[All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The king reigns but does not govern. [Fr., Le roi regne, il ne gouverne pas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54525]]></link><description><![CDATA[The king reigns but does not govern. [Fr., Le roi regne, il ne gouverne pas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased them. . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51277]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased them. . . . I am no true man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66071]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a depth of ... confusion that we weren't expecting. I think people take their freedoms for granted. Bottom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32806]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a depth of ... confusion that we weren't expecting. I think people take their freedoms for granted. Bottom line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes."N.B.: A lesser-known version of this quotation was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes."N.B.: A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757: "By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes. - Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46908]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance-it is the illusionof knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22109]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance-it is the illusionof knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53635]]></link><description><![CDATA[A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50912]]></link><description><![CDATA[We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still amorous, and fond, and billing, Like Philip and Mary, on a shilling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still amorous, and fond, and billing, Like Philip and Mary, on a shilling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind is just another muscle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22628]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind is just another muscle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take your work seriously, but never yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take your work seriously, but never yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gamsters and race-horses never last long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gamsters and race-horses never last long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26310]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65009]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you change partners every time it gets tough or you get a little dissatisfied, then I don't think you get the richness that's available in a long-term relationship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45209]]></link><description><![CDATA[The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you look at the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection now, it doesn't tell the story of what was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34433]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you look at the Museum of Modern Art's permanent collection now, it doesn't tell the story of what was happening during the '30s and '40s. While Myron prefers the representational, I think you can see he likes artists who pushed realism as close to abstraction as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Creeds were formulated gradually, as a result of a series of desperate controversies -- controversies which are now named ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6996]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Creeds were formulated gradually, as a result of a series of desperate controversies -- controversies which are now named sometimes after the supposed leaders and representatives of a particular interpretation of the Christian religion, and sometimes after the particular interpretation itself. I need not now attempt to make precise these heresies, as they came to be called. It is necessary only to point out that in various ways all these heresies were simplifications. By means of them the revelation of God to men was made, or appeared to be made, less scandalous. On the other hand, the various clauses of the Creed were not formulated as a new simplification, or as an alternative-ism. They were nothing more than emphatic statements of the Biblical scandal, statements which brought into sharp antagonism the new simplification and the old, Scriptural, many-sided and vigorous truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46288]]></link><description><![CDATA[If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He assigned it to regions more than tropical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48939]]></link><description><![CDATA[He assigned it to regions more than tropical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At length her grace rose and with modest paces Came to the altar, where she kneeled, and saint-like  Cast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54509]]></link><description><![CDATA[At length her grace rose and with modest paces Came to the altar, where she kneeled, and saint-like  Cast her fair eyes to heaven and prayed devoutly;   Then rose again and bowed her to the people;    When by the Archbishop of Canterbury     She had all the royal makings of a queen,      As holy oil, Edward Confessor's crown,       The rod, and bird of peace, and all such emblems        Laid nobly on her; which performed, the choir         With all the choicest music of the kingdom          Together sung 'Te Deum.' So she parted           And with the same full state packed back again            To York Place, where the feast is held.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57850]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4862]]></link><description><![CDATA[In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life. [Lat., Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam;  Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mystery is another name for our ignorance; if we were omniscient, all would be perfectly plain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What price Glory? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42315]]></link><description><![CDATA[What price Glory?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46313]]></link><description><![CDATA[And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who eat their corn while yet 'tis green At the true harvest can but glean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who eat their corn while yet 'tis green At the true harvest can but glean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a long time to understand nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a long time to understand nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27645</guid></item></channel></rss>